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Being a system administrator i came across a statement as " Excluding temporary directories /tmp and /var/tmp, no root owned files should be in world writable directories"
While the above statement may look straight forward but how would i check if there are any such directories in the distribution?
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So, I'm still missing something here. Won't the solution(s) offered, identify root-owned other-writeable directories, but not check whether there's any root-owned files in there (and if there aren't, then the directory should be filtered out of the results, no?)?
So, I'm still missing something here. Won't the solution(s) offered, identify root-owned other-writeable directories, but not check whether there's any root-owned files in there (and if there aren't, then the directory should be filtered out of the results, no?)?
Well your query says root owned 'files' not directories so '-type d' would be incorrect.
I believe you would need to pipe food into a while loop and check if directory had the correct perms.
Something like:
Code:
while read -r test_file
do
[[ $(stat -c%A "$test_file") =~ .w.$ ]] && echo "${test_file%/*}"
done< <(find -type f -user root)
Well your query says root owned 'files' not directories so '-type d' would be incorrect.
I believe you would need to pipe food into a while loop and check if directory had the correct perms.
Something like:
Code:
while read -r test_file
do
[[ $(stat -c%A "$test_file") =~ .w.$ ]] && echo "$test_file"
done< <(find -type f -user root)
Why do I keep misreading things? Yes, you would have a two stage thing here as find doesn't keep any context in terms of what files are in what directories. So you'd need to find the directories and then see if in that directory there are any files owned by root.
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